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1  "Very tall and dark," I told him.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IX
2  The guns have been going since dark, about.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XV
3  It was very dark, very wet, very muddy, and so we splashed along.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XV
4  Now, waxwork and skeleton seemed to have dark eyes that moved and looked at me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
5  But she answered at last, and her light came along the dark passage like a star.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
6  It had been almost dark before, but now it seemed quite dark, and soon afterwards very dark.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V
7  It was a very dark night when it was all over, and when I set out with Mr. Wopsle on the walk home.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XV
8  He was a burly man of an exceedingly dark complexion, with an exceedingly large head, and a corresponding large hand.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
9  The shape of the letters on my father's, gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly black hair.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I
10  She locked it after admitting me, as she had done before, and again preceded me into the dark passage where her candle stood.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI
11  She took it up, and we went through more passages and up a staircase, and still it was all dark, and only the candle lighted us.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
12  The house was dark and shabby, and the greasy shoulders that had left their mark in Mr. Jaggers's room seemed to have been shuffling up and down the staircase for years.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XXIV
13  As I put the window open and stood looking out, I saw Joe come slowly forth at the dark door, below, and take a turn or two in the air; and then I saw Biddy come, and bring him a pipe and light it for him.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVIII
14  To stand in the dark in a mysterious passage of an unknown house, bawling Estella to a scornful young lady neither visible nor responsive, and feeling it a dreadful liberty so to roar out her name, was almost as bad as playing to order.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VIII
15  As I knew it would be miserable at home, and as the nights were dark and the way was dreary, and almost any companionship on the road was better than none, I made no great resistance; consequently, we turned into Pumblechook's just as the street and the shops were lighting up.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XV
16  I remember that at a later period of my "time," I used to stand about the churchyard on Sunday evenings when night was falling, comparing my own perspective with the windy marsh view, and making out some likeness between them by thinking how flat and low both were, and how on both there came an unknown way and a dark mist and then the sea.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIV
17  I had known him the moment I saw him looking over the settle, and now that I stood confronting him with his hand upon my shoulder, I checked off again in detail his large head, his dark complexion, his deep-set eyes, his bushy black eyebrows, his large watch-chain, his strong black dots of beard and whisker, and even the smell of scented soap on his great hand.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVIII
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